THE FARM SCHEME 



buggy, cares so little for a horse that for sev- 

 eral years he has walked two miles each 

 morning and each evening rather than to 

 take the trouble to hitch up his horse. If 

 one visits a high-grade breeder of dairy cat- 

 tle, he is very apt to find his pigs of ordinary 

 character. On the other hand, a specialist 

 in hogs is likely to keep scrub cows. A man 

 may be an excellent wheat raiser and a poor 

 potato grower, and the reverse. The breeder 

 of live stock is likely to be lacking in his 

 methods of producing farm crops, while the 

 up-to-date, so-called general farmer is not 

 likely to be a special lover of live stock. In 

 like manner, the man may be a successful 

 farmer, dairyman or horticulturist from the 

 producing side, but be a poor salesman. In 

 fact, those qualities of mind and heart which 

 make for the best success from the stand- 

 point of production, whether soil products 

 or animal products, is not that which makes 

 the best trader. 



It is not expected that the young farmer 

 will be materially different from his hun- 

 dreds of thousands of predecessors, but the 



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